bôm

See also: Appendix:Variations of "bom"

Macanese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Portuguese bom.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /boŋ/

Adjective

bôm (adverb bêm)

  1. good
    bôm-sono ― goodnight
    más bôm ― better (literally, “more good”)
    bôm cara ― good-looking (literally, “good face”)
    bôm coraçám ― kind-hearted, generous person (literally, “good heart”)
    Êle têm bôm paga
    He has a good salary

Usage notes
  • bôm coraçám may be a calque of Cantonese 好心 (hou2 sam1).
  • bô is very rarely used standalone,and mostly only in interjections such as bô-tarde.

Derived terms

References

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pomme; the phoneme /p/ is changed into /ɓ/ as it is not a native onset consonant.

Noun

(classifier trái, quả, cây) bôm

  1. (regional) apple
Synonyms

Noun

bôm

  1. a plant-derived tar

Welsh

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /boːm/

Verb

bôm

  1. first-person plural present subjunctive of bod

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
bôm fôm môm unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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